The Clifton clarion., 1887-04-20
The secret Bath O. Iais.
"The Egyptian Princesses," sat

were renowned for their beauty
 above all the women of the earth
 from the earliest records down tc
 Cleopatra's time. As beautiful as
 8 Princess of Egypt was the sup
 erlative of comparison. No women
 in the world ever had such cor
 piexions or such skins. and there Is nothing in the world to-day tc compare with tue skins of the
 mummies of women taken from the tombs. This distinction lasted over period of 5000 years, and
 was commonly attributed to the bath of Isis which was preserved
 for them with such jealous care; but it was really more owing to in- heritance and ,he climate. united to perfect health and phenomenal cleanliness, than to the lotion. Yes, the lotion had something to do with it; but anybody can test for herself how much.
 There never was any secret about its components. It was mace from lotus water and the adipocere of rabbit, which was a symbol of the air. The bath had a phallic meaning and was the survival of some phallic worship. It was the marriage of air and water, through the lotus The trouble was to get the adipocere. None but the Memphian and Saisan priests knew how to convert the dead rabbit in to adipocerc. This secret they kept, and 10 this day it is not known how they did it, although there are a dozen ways now by which 1t can be done. The lotus water was made by distlllation, as rose water is now made, and was in as common use among the Egyp- tian women as rose water Is with the American. The adipocere was prepared in some way by which the saccharized oil was extracted, making it identical with our give erine, ny removing the waXy DOT ton of the fatty matter. You re member that Cheops ruined him self ny building his pyramids, and that in order to get money 10 buy bread and cheese he sold his daugh- ter's favors. She demanded from each of her 15,G00 lovers the pres eut Of q single stone, and with those given her by them she bnlt the middle pyramid of the three. facing her fathers. The priests of Memphis for this reason refused to grant any of the sacred bath of Isis to her or her decendants, ac cordiug to one fragment, and one of her lovers. who was q priest. re- vealed the secret of the prepara- ticn of the adIpocerc. This secret may have passed down 10 her fam fly, but must soon have been lost, for they couldn't get the udipocere to prepare. If the bath was used by m of the Byzantine Expresses, they probably used the adipocere knohn to them, which was not of rabbits, but of human beings and horses. It could not have been or very good quality, as it would have been unretined and mixed with lotus-water in the waxy state. It was better than nothing, perhaps.
 How is all this knowu?" Liebig took the trouble to verify it, to settle the dispute about the trans lations. Lotus water is easy enough to get, as it is a regular preparation in the East for the skin, corresponding to Florida Wa CT and bay rum with us. He took the troubie to make the bath first with rabbit adipocere, and then with the refined product. it's sweet oil, so that he obtained the identi- cal bath of Isis
 "The proportions? They vary. To keep the skin soft, one-third of to two thirds of rose Wa ter, and this was probably the pro portions in the bath of Isis as its symbol was thus devided: but Lie bigs experiments showed that half-and-half were about the pro per proportions when bringing the skin into condition. He made eight combinations, each of different and the simplest was tine best.
 ''Of course 1 use it. Ten cents V o tn lasts me month, IS I use it only on my hands and at night. You see for yourself how trans parent and white and soft it keeps the skin. Mine is merely five cents worth of rose-wuter of commerce (made from four drops of rose oil to an ounce of distilled water) and five cents worth of ordinary give